LIFE IS LIKE A PIANO

 

Our lives are like a piano. As a pianist I have learned the value of the things I do in my life. The choices I make the places I go, and the things I do, are important.

In order for me to play the piano correctly it takes a lot of practice. I wasn't given a natural talent for music and there have been times the Lord and I have had deep discussions about this topic. My heart longs to be able to sit down and play any music put before me, but I'm afraid that just isn't going to happen in my lifetime.

I did learn through some very rough years in my life that whatever I put into that piano is what I would get out of it. If I never practiced, I couldn't play. If I practiced a lot, I could play well.

I remember praying and asking the Lord to continually soften my heart. Not make me a doormat for others to walk on but to take the bitterness out of my soul. Each day I would sit and play the piano for hours. I soon found if I was angry I might start out playing angry notes but as long as it took to soften my heart is how long I stayed at that piano.

My heart was pretty hard and angry so therefore I had to spend hours upon hours each week playing that piano.

After many years of playing the piano for hours every day and talking to the Lord about my deep sorrow and deep anger, I realized slowly but surely my heart was being healed from all the sorrow and anger.

One day I was sitting at the piano, and a God thing happened. You can ask anyone who knows a lot about my piano playing I do not play by ear. Those who hear me play in public believe I could sit and play just about anything. What they don't know is it takes hours upon hours of practice for me to play one little song. Now once I play that song, I have it down for the rest of my life.

 As I was sitting at the piano one day, the Lord gave me a song. If you were to listen to this piano piece of this song you probably would say it was written from a person that has extreme peace in their heart.

This would be true but the story and words behind the song is that of great grief, anger, sorrow, suffering and despair. It took me two years to work the bad stuff out of my heart for my fingers to be able to play the song I wrote.

The words began to flow from my mouth and my fingers began to play a soothing piece of music "Lord I'll Follow You"

We are all going to play a song with our lives whether we want to or not. It can be one of destruction, anger, and despair or one of peace, contentment and joy.

 Some of the trials I experienced in 2002 - 2004 were horrible. Never wanting to recall that experience, but knowing now had I not gone through this time, I wouldn't have seen the importance of continually digging a well.

There are conflicts we face daily that we have to stop and ask ourselves, "What tune do I want the ending note of my piece of music to be?"

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (I Corinthians 9:24-27)